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Luncheon raises more concerns over GECOM’s preparedness for polling day

Apr 30, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Luncheon raises more concerns over GECOM’s preparedness for polling day

With Elections Day just around the corner, Cabinet Secretary, Dr Roger Luncheon has raised concerns over the preparedness of the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) in the lead up to the May 11...

St. Joseph High School says farewell to Headmistress

Apr 30, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on St. Joseph High School says farewell to Headmistress

Recognizing her sterling contribution to St. Joseph High School over the years, students, teachers and parents gathered at the school’s auditorium yesterday, to show appreciation and bid farewell...

Tackling ‘woman’ violence from the root

Apr 30, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Tackling ‘woman’ violence from the root

It may seem as though the media has been exploding with sanctions for violence against women in Guyana recently. However, it is not merely as effective as abuse itself which continues to occur daily....

Guyanese great-great-grandfather killed by hit-and-run driver

Apr 30, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Guyanese great-great-grandfather killed by hit-and-run driver

(New York Daily News) – A vibrant Queens great-great-grandfather who loved to pedal his bike around the neighborhood has died after being critically injured by a hit-and-run driver, police said...

Swami Aksharananda and the concept of my Jehovah Witness friend

Apr 30, 2015 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Swami Aksharananda and the concept of my Jehovah Witness friend

You think you understand life? Well you may try but I doubt we can ever understand it. I am not a very religious person. I embrace the philosophical thought of existentialism. But ironically...

Murdered Jamaican ganja farmer was robbed

Apr 30, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Murdered Jamaican ganja farmer was robbed

Investigators are trying to establish if it was a heated dispute for the control of marijuana sales in the Berbice River or a plain robbery that led to the murder of a Jamaican man in the Kimbia area...

Politicians sign on to self-regulatory code of conduct

Apr 30, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Politicians sign on to self-regulatory code of conduct

– Should be used as the holy grail for campaigning As politicians signed on to a non-punitive code of conduct to govern their behaviour as General and Regional elections near, stern...

Woe to Guyana if Chinese go into fishing – Businessman

Apr 30, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Woe to Guyana if Chinese go into fishing – Businessman

Chinese have already made moves to get into the fishing industry, but while fishermen expressed concerns over that worrying attempt, local businessman, Jacob Rambarran has explicitly stated that...

Antigua wants another stay on free movement of domestic workers

Apr 30, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Antigua wants another stay on free movement of domestic workers

ST JOHN’S, Antigua (CMC) – Antigua and Barbuda is seeking another five-year exemption to the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Single Market and Economy (CSME) regime that allows for the expansion of...

Protest erupts at New Amsterdam Hospital

Apr 30, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Protest erupts at New Amsterdam Hospital

…hungry patient dies in New Amsterdam hospital A crisis has erupted at the state of the art New Amsterdam hospital over the shortage of foodstuff, with one patient dying after not eating for over...

Family seeks help for girl, 7, with brain tumour

Apr 30, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Family seeks help for girl, 7, with brain tumour

During the last week of school before the Easter holiday, most children are abuzz with excitement for what the two weeks of reprieve will hold. There will be kite flying, late nights up and even...

Guyana Business Coalition re-launched with wider health focus

Apr 30, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana Business Coalition re-launched with wider health focus

With a wider health focus, the Guyana Business Coalition on Health Awareness (GBCHA), formerly the Guyana Business Coalition on HIV/AIDS, was re-launched. The occasion took the form of a simple...

Hospitals fail to report stillbirth, Ministry unable to launch investigation

Apr 30, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Hospitals fail to report stillbirth, Ministry unable to launch investigation

Like the mothers of the three children Jaden Mars, Akeela Benons and Kevon Critchlow, who died due to the alleged negligence of the health sector, Teresa Lalltoo, the woman who gave birth to a...

Three more wardens held for smuggling narcotics and other contraband items in to prison

Apr 30, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Three more wardens held for smuggling narcotics and other contraband items in to prison

Three Prison Wardens have been handed over to the police following the discovery of a number of contraband items which they were planning to smuggle into the Georgetown Prison. The Wardens were held...

The Bheri Ramsaran farewell

Apr 30, 2015 KNews Editorial Comments Off on The Bheri Ramsaran farewell

Bheri Ramsaran has been the subject of much discussion and the object of derision for the past two weeks. Every Guyanese who could hold a pen or access a computer had his say on the abuse Ramsaran...

Woman busted with coke strapped to her body

Apr 30, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Woman busted with coke strapped to her body

A Guyanese woman is now in police custody after she was busted with cocaine before she could board a flight at the Ogle Airport, bound for Barbados. The woman had the drug strapped to her body when...

THERE SHOULD BE A PROCESS OF GRADUATION TO TOWNSHIP STATUS

Apr 30, 2015 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on THERE SHOULD BE A PROCESS OF GRADUATION TO TOWNSHIP STATUS

Many decades ago at one of the Bartica Regattas, a well-known media consultant was interviewed by Clem David, a radio announcer with the State-owned radio station. That media consultant who was in...

Triumph man killed after car crashes into guard hut

Apr 30, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Triumph man killed after car crashes into guard hut

Police are blaming speeding for the death of 22-year-old Arif Williams who perished when the car he was driving crashed into a guard hut at Montrose, East Coast Demerara on Tuesday night. Williams...

Magistrate orders psychiatric evaluation for defendant

Apr 30, 2015 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Magistrate orders psychiatric evaluation for defendant

Magistrate Sunil Scarce on Tuesday recommended that Junior Adolphus should undergo a Psychiatric evaluation. Adolphus of Richmond Housing Scheme was the father who tried to kill his son last week at...

Guyana’s prime timbers – over-harvested, under-priced and minimally taxed

Apr 30, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on Guyana’s prime timbers – over-harvested, under-priced and minimally taxed

DEAR EDITOR, The author of the Peeping Tom column in Kaieteur News on Sunday 26 April 2015 (‘The Chinese are not the problem’) complained about the high domestic price of greenheart sawnwood,...

Selective remembering of Guyana’s political history

Apr 30, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on Selective remembering of Guyana’s political history

DEAR EDITOR, By asking whether PPP women are being trained in the art of public stripping, Dr David Hinds is engaging in some selective remembering of Guyana’s political history. The public...

The PPP lacks the vision required to move Guyana to modernity

Apr 30, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on The PPP lacks the vision required to move Guyana to modernity

DEAR EDITOR, If one was to listen to the leaders of the Peoples Progressive Party (PPP) and have no worldview, they would safely conclude that service in the Armed Forces somehow negates one from...

Govt gifts US$40M Brazil fibre optic cable to contractor

Apr 29, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Govt gifts US$40M Brazil fibre optic cable to contractor

…also grants tax exemptions, incentives, tax holidays, remissions, tax waivers, duty free concessions on vehicles etc. The US$40 million fibre optic cable from Brazil is no longer to be the...

Bai Shan Lin uses Guyanese to acquire large concession

Apr 29, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Bai Shan Lin uses Guyanese to acquire large concession

There is evidence that months before becoming a naturalized Guyanese, Chu Hongbo, the principal in Bai Shan Lin Forest Development Inc., had a Guyanese holding almost 700,000 hectares of state lands...

Deepwater Harbour another venture to cart off millions -Tony Vieira

Apr 29, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Deepwater Harbour another venture to cart off millions -Tony Vieira

Political activist, Tony Vieira says that considering Government’s “unquenchable greed” which is already “destroying the nation,” the People’s Progressive Party/ Civic (PPP/C) “cannot...

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Chilling reminders that we are not safe

Peeping Tom… Kaieteur News- Georgetown was plunged into shock and terror last week after two heinous incidents laid... more